Chernobyl's abandoned wasteland 30 years after nuclear disaster, in pictures

Thirty years after the world's worst nuclear catastrophe, thrill-seeking tourists are heading into the radioactive dead zone around the stricken power plant whose Reactor Number 4 exploded in April 1986. Travel guides armed with Geiger counters to measure radioactivity in the poisoned landscape insist travellers are exposed to less radiation than they would get on a transatlantic flight.